Unlocking the Potential of ChatGPT for Day-to-Day Programming Assistance

Manpreet Singh
4 min readJan 15, 2023

ChatGPT is a large language model developed by OpenAI that uses a variant of the transformer architecture, which is a type of neural network designed to handle sequential data such as text.

The model is trained on a massive dataset of text, which allows it to generate human-like text. The training data is preprocessed to tokenize the text, which means that it is broken down into individual words or subwords, and then encoded into a numerical format that the model can understand.

During the training process, the model learns the relationships between the tokens in the text, which allows it to generate new text that is similar to the training data. The model is also able to understand the context of the text, which allows it to generate text that is appropriate for the given prompt.

The model has been fine-tuned on a specific task, this is done by providing a smaller dataset that is specific to the task and fine-tune the pre-trained model on it. This allows the model to generate more accurate and relevant text for the specific task.

When you make a request to the ChatGPT API, the model takes in a prompt and generates a response based on the text it has been trained on. The generated text is not a direct copy of the training data, but rather a new…

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Manpreet Singh
Manpreet Singh

Written by Manpreet Singh

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